For the project “The Day Today” we must create a piece of any media in response to an article that catches our eye in the local newspaper. The article that caught my eye was about trophy hunting in Africa and how British families go on holiday and hunt monkeys. I wanted to create a 3D piece that has contrasting shapes so the piece has an uncomfortable feel, like something is not right. This is the feeling I felt when seeing the article imagine of a man holding a dead monkey. What caught my eye was the opposites of man made object being the gun and the natural world being the money.I started with making paper cones to try and replicate fangs. By tightly rolling cylinder shapes with newspapers to make a similar shape like a gun. Having the cylinders going through the cones it represents the guns killing the animal. I then experimented with different types of paper that can hold more shape. The string is to show the connection that humans and monkeys have with having 90% similar DNA. I further on went to try with different textures by layering paint. The final outcome itself was not successful, however I feel the experimenting went well and I feel I should have developed more than rather focus on having a final piece.
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